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...ability to contest meaning and incite debate—makes it central to understanding war. If the stated purpose of war in Iraq is to bring democracy into the region, and the purpose of democracies is to create societies in which free speech and artistic expression can flourish, then it is with no small amount of irony that we are fighting this war with a rhetoric that deliberately avoids debate. How can we export democracy when the health of our own is at risk...
...went on to sell millions of copies as a novel. H2G2, as the entire opus is now known, grew into a multibook series, a stage play, a TV adaptation, a video game, comic books, a website and even a towel (a key H2G2,plot item). Adams fan clubs flourish, and Disney has reportedly dusted off plans for a movie based on Arthur Dent's interstellar wanderings. But as M.J. Simpson notes in his minutely detailed Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams (Hodder & Stoughton; 393 pages), the man commonly credited with inventing the genre of humorous science fiction was a tragic...
...Idea, and with it a veritable army of defenders. In an environment of extreme rhetorical posturing founded on rigorous and uncompromising tolerance for speech on its own—a present-day Napoleonic code of inaction—Harvard is the very place for such warlike pageants to flourish...
Three trumpets bedecked with crimson-colored flags played a melodious flourish at Memorial Hall last night to greet 45 ecstatic boys newly arrived from the Big Apple...
...group's main bomb was changed at the last moment by the intervention of three mysterious strangers, in all likelihood the same three "top guns" now heading the police's secret most wanted list. (After testifying, the 39-year-old mechanic signed the 70-plus-page transcript with a flourish, bizarrely adding a grinning smiley face next to his name.) Originally, Amrozi told his captors, the group had planned to target only the U.S. consulate in Denpasar, Bali's capital. The newcomers were "as smart as Samudra," Amrozi emphasized, leading the police to believe they were of the same...